Work/life balance
Help 😠I will literally take any advice I just feel so dumb!
I (mid-20’s F) work 3 jobs. One is online a few nights a week, one is afternoons from 3-8 3x/week, and the other is around 25 hours a week but often goes over that.
I work in the equine industry and put a lot of effort into my time at the barn. I teach soccer + basketball private lessons in the afternoons/nights. I LOVE both of these things as they are very rewarding to me. I love teaching and contributing back to the communities I grew up with. I played basketball in college and I want to give the kids that joy I got on the court.
But it’s taking a toll. I kind of need to work 3 jobs, for rent and cost of living and the like. I go to therapy every couple of weeks and I love my therapist but I feel like her advice goes null. In every other aspect of things I talk about with her, her advice is super helpful and has gotten me through some tough times. She will be give me advice about this and it’s like I’m somehow deciding not to care- not sure how else to describe it
I am constantly cleaning and doing various tasks for the barn as I’m in a management position. We have a lot of various animals and only a few members of staff, so if I don’t do something, it probably won’t get done. I’m outside all the time so the weather also determines how tired or not I am after work, and especially in the summer it gets pretty bad. Not to mention that we’ve had some really rough times at the barn recently with animal health chronic genetic things out of our control.
So when I get home… the dishes go uncleaned, the laundry goes undone, the bathroom stays dirty, my desk stays covered in trash and plates and whatnot (we don’t have a dining table in my apartment lol). I have a doggy who takes 100% priority, I take him out multiple times a day, I feed and water him twice a day, and he goes on adventures with me to the barn and I get him absolutely everything and anything he needs including vet care and the like (hence the 3 jobs 😂)
Jokes aside, it’s horrible. Not to the point where it could cause sickness or permanent damage to the apartment, but it’s a terrible cycle since the mess always gets a little bigger every day.
I feel so helpless. I have been diagnosed with major depressive disorder previously, but the worst part (kind of) is that I don’t actually feel depressed. I have almost everything I’ve ever wanted. So why can’t I clean anything??? Why am I so stuck??
TLDR; it feels like I can’t do chores at home because I’m dedicating my life to work. That sounds like I’m 14 and don’t want to clean my room but it’s debilitating.
Posted Sep 30, 2026, 3:31 AM UTC